Sr. Video Transmission Engineer

NBCUniversal · Centennial, COLORADO, United States

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $120,000 – $150,000
  • Posted 2026-09-10
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Job Description
NBCUniversal has an opening for a Sr Video Transmission Engineer on the Global Distribution Engineering team. The Engineer will be part of a team responsible for supporting and maintaining the Dry Creek Network Operations Center (NOC) as well as Local Station Master Control Origination and Distribution environments, including rapid response to on-air and other business-critical issues. This role supports critical broadcast, transmission, monitoring, automation, and distribution infrastructure across NBCUniversal distribution and local station operations.
Responsibilities include:
· Support and maintain the Dry Creek NOC infrastructure and associated monitoring, transmission, and distribution systems.
· Support Local Station Master Control Origination and Distribution platforms, ensuring reliable delivery of programming and associated services.
· Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues affecting local station origination, transmission, contribution, and distribution workflows.
· Coordinate with Local Station Engineering, Operations, Distribution, and vendor teams to resolve service-impacting issues and implement system enhancements.
· Participate in an on-call rotation and provide after-hours support for critical incidents and broadcast emergencies.
· Respond to outage calls from the operations team and lead the initial response to technical issues.
· Create procedural documentation.
· Work with internal and external subject matter experts and vendors to resolve problems.
· Implement software upgrades and system expansions.
· Analyze and solve problems in software (on-prem / cloud) and hardware-based systems.
· Perform performance analysis and general system health checks across various technologies.
· Perform periodic maintenance procedures and proactive preventive maintenance actions.
· Develop the skills to become a subject matter expert for a collection of technologies within and across facilities.

Qualifications
Basic Requirements:
· BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience.
· 5+ years of support experience in a live on-air environment.
· Ability to mentor and develop technology professionals.
· Ability to effectively manage change.
· Customer-focused, with a full understanding of the on-air environment.
· Ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex systems.
· Demonstrated ability to effectively apply SDI, IP, and transport stream test equipment and analysis tools.
· Demonstrated ability to document complex systems and processes, including the development of maintenance and change procedures.
· Ability to communicate processes and requirements to peers and off-site resources, including personnel at remote NBCUniversal sites, stations, and vendors.
· Effective interpersonal skills.
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
· Customer-focused and forward-thinking.
· Knowledge in the following areas:
· Advanced broadcast automation experience with platforms such as Snell, Grass Valley, or Pebble.
· Video transmission and compression formats and systems, including, but not limited to, SDI, ASI, JPEG XS, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and SMPTE ST 2110.
· Video stream metadata, including, but not limited to, DTMF triggers, timecode user bits, SCTE-35 and SCTE-104 triggers, closed captioning, and Nielsen watermarking.
· Automation and control signaling protocols and systems, including, but not limited to, serial, GPIO, VGPI, and SNMP.
· Proprietary monitoring and control systems, preferably Evertz VistaLINK and Grass Valley iControl.
· Enterprise computing infrastructure, including enterprise servers, client-server platforms, storage devices and systems, hardware, and software, as applied to provisioning, management, storage, operation, scheduling, support, and maintenance.
· Desktop, server, and virtual machine technology.
· Storage technology, including SAN, NAS, RAID, and cloud storage.
· SDI and IP video routing systems and their control, preferably Grass Valley nVision and Evertz EQX, EXE, SDVN, and Magnum.
Desired Characteristics:
· Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
· VMware VCA/VCP certification.
The ideal candidate would have experience with the following technologies:
· IP networking and multicasting.
· Streaming media protocols, including RTP, RTSP, and UDP.
· Virtualization technologies such as VMware ESXi.
· Video server systems, including Grass Valley ICE and DVS.
· Cloud based master control systems such as Amagi CLOUDPORT.
· Transmission encoding and decoding systems from MediaKind.
· Management and control software, including VistaLINK, iControl, and Convergent.
· Basic and advanced test equipment, such as waveform monitors and transport stream analyzers.
Additional Requirements:
· Hybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.
· Must have flexibility regardin

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